Beni Snous Tamazight

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Beni Snous Tamazight is a Zenati Berber variety traditionally spoken by the Beni Snous community in northwestern Algeria near the Moroccan border.

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Label Occurrences
Beni Snous Tamazight canonical 1

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Berber language variety
Northern Berber language
Zenati language
classificationStatus often treated as dialect of Zenati Berber
closelyRelatedTo Figuig Berber NERFINISHED
Moroccan Zenati varieties
Riffian Berber NERFINISHED
continent Africa
country Algeria
endangermentStatus severely endangered
ethnicGroup Beni Snous NERFINISHED
geographicDistribution mountain villages of Beni Snous
hasAlternativeName Beni Snous Amazigh NERFINISHED
Beni Snous Berber NERFINISHED
Beni Snous Zenati NERFINISHED
hasContactWith Algerian Arabic NERFINISHED
Moroccan Arabic NERFINISHED
hasFeature emphatic consonants
gender distinction masculine feminine
noun state alternation
prefix and suffix conjugation
preverbal particles
rich verbal morphology
tri-consonantal roots
hasLoanwordsFrom Arabic NERFINISHED
French NERFINISHED
isMinorityLanguageIn Algeria NERFINISHED
languageCodeStatus no ISO 639-3 code
languageFamily Afroasiatic languages
Berber languages NERFINISHED
locatedIn Maghreb NERFINISHED
macroLanguage Tamazight NERFINISHED
primaryWordOrder VOS
VSO
region Beni Snous area NERFINISHED
researchStatus poorly documented
shiftedTo Arabic
spokenBy Berber population of Beni Snous
spokenIn Algeria NERFINISHED
Tlemcen Province NERFINISHED
northwestern Algeria NERFINISHED
spokenNear Moroccan border
subgroupOf Northern Zenati NERFINISHED
Zenati Berber NERFINISHED
traditionalSpeakers Beni Snous community
writingSystem Arabic script
Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Beni Snous language alternativeName Beni Snous Tamazight